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ABOUT THE BOOK

Dairy sector in India has vital significance in social wellbeing of the country. It has potential to address many sociological issues of the country ranging from malnutrition, increasing aggregate income, reducing rural and urban unemployment, promoting quality life in rural areas and reducing imbalance in regional development across the country. Dairy production comprises of small, medium and large dairy producers. Such mixed producer system presents challenging situation for livestock owners, researchers, academicians, dairy managers, dairy entrepreneurs and enterprise. The quality inputs for both large and small farmers and their channels of delivery have to be defined with precision. Boundaries of precision dairy production management are far different from traditional cow keeping. It demands precision in breeding, reproduction, health, nutrition, shelter and other aspects of management where in planning and execution are very important for attaining optimal productive and reproductive efficiency. Precision dairy farming focuses mainly on the health and reproduction and blends scores of modern molecular techniques, advances in reproductive and nutritional physiology with temporally gained implicit knowledge from basic understanding of various productive mechanisms and experience gained from the traditional knowledge. Transformation from traditional dairying to precision dairying is very essential with changing environments and boundary less global trade.

The book consists of seven major sections with 29 chapters to address various aspects of precision dairy production management. The first section discusses various issues of dairying in India and, animal and trade relationship with the environment spheres. The subsequent sections deal with genetics/breeding, nutrition, shelter management, reproduction and health. The penultimate section of the book was dealt with dairy trade, physicochemical and microbiological attributes of the milk, therapeutic value of milk and energy saving in dairy industry.

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ABOUT THE EDITORS

Dr. Bandla Srinivas born in 1964 did his graduation in Biosciences from Andhra Loyola college, Vijayawads (Acharya Nagarjuna University, Andhra Pradesh) in the year 1984 and obtained Indian Dairy Diploma (Dairy Husbandry) by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi from Soutnern Regional Station (SRS), National Dairy Research Institute, Bangalore (NDRI), Bangalore in the year 1986, M. Sc., (Animal Science) from Allhabad Agricultural Institute, Allhabad University (Uttar Pradesh) in 1988 and Doctorate from NDRI, Karnal in the year 1992. He obtained post graduate diploma in Rural Development and MBA (Operations Management) from Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He also attended many training programmes related project management, technology management and food safety management system.

He joined as Scientist in Agricultural Research Services (1990 Batch) in the year 1992. He worked at Indian Veterinary Research Institute, Mukteswar (Uttaranchal), Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute, Jhansi (Uttar Pradesh), National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, Bangalore (Karnataka), Central Sheep and Wool Research Institute, Avikanagar (Rajasthan) and presently working at SRS, NDRI, Bangalore as Principal Scientist since 2009.

He handled 6 projects as Principal Investigator (PI) and associated with 10 projects as Co-PI. He guided 5 post graduate students. He also teaches post graduate students and conducted training courses related to dairy production, ISO certification courses and many other field level training courses. He published 46 research papers, 23 invited papers/book chapters, 4 review articles, 10 popular articles, 12 books as associate editor and, authored 2 books.

Dr. Ankireddy Obireddy did his M. V. Sc., from Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur and Ph. D., from National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI), Karnal and M.B.A., from Bangalore University. He joined as scientist in ICAR in the year 1976. He worked at Indian Grassland and Fodder Research Institute (IGRI, Jhansi) for a while and joined Southern Regional Station, NDRI, Bangalore in the year 1977. He has guided 6 Ph. D students and 10 M. V. Sc., students. He has published 45 scientific communications in various national and international journals. He has designed and taught courses in dairy production viz., Principles and Practices of Management, Production Technology-1, Dairying in India and Human Resource Management. He immensely contributed in many research projects and his contribution and experience gained in progeny testing program and evaluation of performance of dairy animals in all the milch tracts of Southern region are noteworthy. He served/serving as member of Research/Academic councils, Biodiversity/Livestock development boards, veterinary universities etc. He retired as principle scientist in the year 2011. Presently he has been endowed with special officer to Tirumala Tirupathi Devastanam (TTD, Tirupathi, Andhra pradesh) to develop indigenous breeds of livestock farm since January, 2013.